Problem

Do federal courts have the power to decide cases about the apportionment of population into state legislative districts?

Can federal courts decide cases about redistricting?

Evidence

Tennessee didn’t redistrict in 60 years, big population shifts

1960, in Tennessee, the type of people moving in aren’t random. They’re African Americans and they’re all grouped into one districts. They feel under-represented.

Ruling

• Issues of redistricting were a thing that the federal court could decide upon
• Supreme Court CAN rule on questions of redistricting

Killed a justice from stress???

Precedent

• The decision impacts the court abilities to decide a TYPE of case
• Established a “One Person, One Vote” idea
• Made a bunch of places redraw districts
• Introduce the courts to a lot of new issue types